Michael K. Edwards wrote: > As I see it, the individuals who assigned their copyright in GNU > documentation to the FSF probably didn't expect to see the relicensing > of their work under a GPL-incompatible license, creating yet another > "gated community" carved out of the ostensible commons.
You're quite right. I know Zack Weinberg -- author of a large portion of the GNU cpp manual -- didn't, and dislikes the policy, to mention someone who was willing to make his views public. I personally stopped submitting copyrightable amounts of documentation to GNU when I figured out what was going on. This, of course, indicates a problem at the heart of the FSF: Stallman has been able to unilaterally impose a bad licensing policy, which the vast majority of GNU developers think is a bad idea. He hasn't even been able to point to two other people who agree with him about the GFDL (Georg Greve *might* count as one person, *maybe*, though his views seem rather different), yet it remains official FSF dogma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]